Finally! Hope For Us Fatties!
Italy is following in the footsteps of Spain, Argentina, and Brazil to ban ultra-skinny models from their catwalks. Italian National Fashion Chamber head Mario Boselli met with Italian Youth Minister Giovanna Melandri, and agreed to work on a self regulatory code of good practice.
Flaminia Spadone, an aide to the minister, said “We’d like fashion houses, modeling agencies, photographers and everyone working in the fashion world to sign the charter,” she said. “It would be voluntary but professional bodies could decide to impose sanctions on people who don’t sign, preventing them from taking part in fashion shows.”
She said models who came under 18.5 on the index - the World Health Organization’s definition of underweight - should be banned from working for the sake of their own health.
“In the Third World, if someone has an index of less than 18.5, they send in humanitarian aide,” she said.
All of this follows in the footsteps of the death of Brazilian model Ana Carolina Resto from anorexia last month, and while I think it’s very sad someone had to die before anyone paid attention to this problem, I suppose I am happy it’s getting attention at all.
Whether any significant changes will be made is yet to be seen. The fashion industry is notoriously resistant to change from the outside. . .so we’ll see. In the meantime, I’m more than willing to show all the models how to eat. Once I’ve introduced them to my mom’s potato salad, extreme thinness won’t be much of a worry anymore.
Spain, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Models, Ultra-thin Models, Regulation, Fashion Industry
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